The same day, there were 8,224 new recovered cases, taking the total number of recoveries to 10,080,681.
The ministry also announced one more fatality, raising the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,106 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 254,570,355 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 207,401 doses from Sunday./.